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Instructors and Staff

CHRISTINE LaBLAINE DEHART
Artistic Director/Owner/Choreographer 

Christine has been dancing all of her life. She was professionally trained in St. Louis by acclaimed dancers Robert and Cookie Duggar and later at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She owned and operated her own dance studio for children for over 15 years in Central Wisconsin and has danced and taught professionally for over 50 years. Under her study, many of her past students would excel to Broadway, professional dance companies and teaching dance themselves.  She choreographed numerous production numbers throughout the country and founded ACT III Productions in the 1980's.  For the past 20 years, Christine has been teaching Adult only dance classes and in 2007 founded Dancing Thru Life.  In 2008, she was crowned Ms. Missouri Senior America and placed 3rd runner-up in the Ms. Senior America Pageant in Atlantic City. Christine holds a Gold medal in tap dancing in the Senior Olympics and continues to teach master tap classes for the Olympics.  Dancing has been her passion her entire life and loves teaching adults of all ages and levels of dance at Dancing Thru Life studios.  

LINDSAY HULSEY
Artistic Instructor/Choreographer 

 

Lindsay has been dancing since the age of three and received technical training from Krupinski Academy of Dance in St. Louis. After graduating from college at Truman State University in Missouri, she returned to St. Louis and started taking classes from Christine LaBlaine DeHart in 2005. She began choreographing and teaching at Dancing Thru Life Studios in 2007. She has since helped direct and produce "Performing for Life", the studio's annual performance showcase to raise money for charities in Missouri.  Her passion for dance has always remained strong and she enjoys sharing her artistic talent and choreography at Dancing Thru Life studios to all ages of adults. She loves spending time at home with her husband Jeff and their two young sons Devin and Dylan.  Lindsay juggles dance and her family with being the Senior Manager in the Solutions Organization at Anheuser-Busch, Inc. 

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ANGEL VENEGONI
Artistic Instructor/Choreographer 

 

While an undergraduate student at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Angel performed and choreographed dance routines for Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority.  She taught tap and jazz classes at Jefferson Dance Academy in Jefferson City, Missouri for eight years, and trained students, ages 6 to 18, for national competitions and community appearances.  Angel was a tap instructor at Springfield Dance, Inc. in Springfield, Illinois, where she taught beginning through advanced dancers, ages 4 through adult, and developed and implemented a tap leveling and advancement system. She also designed and taught classes for assistant instructors and students interested in teaching dance.  Angel choreographed Springfield Muni Opera's productions of MAME and MY FAIR LADY, served as tap choreographer and guest instructor for Springfield Ballet Company and was a judge for the Chicago Kids™ Artistic Review.  In addition to dancing... Angel is currently the Hospital Administrator for Webster Groves Animal Hospital and is owned and loved by two boxers, Finn & Tag.

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AMANDA BURKHEART
Artistic Instructor/Choreographer 

 

Amanda studied dance at Merle Scheff School of Dance in St. Louis between the ages of 2 and 18, and performed in high school musical productions as a student at Ursuline Academy.  Over the subsequent 12 or so years, she would squeeze in as many random dance classes as she could manage during her training in undergraduate, medical school, internship, and residency. Thankfully, after that time, her work schedule became somewhat more predictable, and she began attending regular dance classes at Dancing Thru Life. She is thrilled to have made some wonderful friends, and for the opportunity to learn and perform with so many remarkable women.  Her ultimate "happy place" is dancing on stage.  She is currently a family medical doctor with Mercy Family Medicine.

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